Carnegie UK Trust has produced this new report, Pooling Together: How Community Hubs have responded to the COVID-19 Emergency, featuring case studies from hubs throughout the UK, available on the Carnegie website. Sustain’s report, Community Food Retail and Food Poverty: examples of different models and guidelines for developing projects, looks at community food projects throughout the UK and how they …
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Eat Well Age Well – the hidden problem of malnutrition
Eat Well Age Well has launched a research study and calls to action as part of its activities to support UK Malnutrition Awareness Week (5 – 12 October). The major study – The Role of Food Security and Malnutrition Risk with Psychosocial Indicators of Healthy Ageing in Place was led by the University of Glasgow …
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Postcode Recovery Fund
The Postcode Recovery Fund has been created to support charities to develop innovative solutions that address the many issues affecting people as society recovers from the effects of the pandemic. Postcode Recovery Fund will offer a total award fund of £3,000,000 for charitable organisations to deliver projects within Great Britain in 2021-2023. Charities can apply …
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Covid-19 responses from the community food sector in Fife
Two new reports are now available that look at Covid-19 responses from the community food sector in Fife, looking back and moving forward. Fife Food Champions are people who have been identified and supported by Fife Community Food Project and have demonstrated the ability and commitment to promote and deliver positive food messages to their …
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Ideas are being gathered by the Scottish Government’s Advisory Board on Social Renewal, from the experience of community groups responding to the pandemic, to drive a fairer recovery in the wake of coronavirus. Further information and details of how to respond are available on the Scottish Government website.
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Public Health Scotland Strategic Plan has launched
Earlier this week, Public Health Scotland published its three year strategy. It is driven by a vision of a Scotland in which everybody thrives: where healthy life expectancy increases, health is protected and health inequalities are in the past. You can read the strategy on the Public Health Scotland website.
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#CommunityFoodNearMe – Gracemount Community Garden
In this bumper version of the #CommunityFoodNearMe social media posts that we have been sharing this week, we have a wee slideshow of colleague Jacqui’s visit to Gracemount Community Garden, where she took a few pictures and got chatting to the volunteers. #CommunityFoodNearMe
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New reports from Public Health Scotland
Two new reports from Public Health Scotland should be of interest to Scotland’s community food initiatives. The COVID-19 Shielding Programme (Scotland) Impact and Experience Survey presents the findings of this online survey, which ran between 1 and 14 June 2020, was open to individuals who had received a letter from Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer advising them …
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The Broken Plate 2020
This new report by the Food Foundation, The Broken Plate 2020, documents the health of our food system, how it impacts our lives and why we must change the food environment. Read the full report here: https://foodfoundation.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/FF-Broken-Plate-2020-DIGITAL-FULL.pdf…
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£30 million to tackle financial insecurity
The Scottish Government has announced £30m flexible funding to local authorities to support households experiencing financial insecurity over the winter months. Local authorities will be able to use this to top up their Scottish Welfare Fund, to provide financial support to tackle food insecurity or to meet fuel costs, or boost local funding for Discretionary …